Global Campaign for Peace Education

Juneteenth: commemoration of the ending of slavery and a call to action

June 18, 2020 0

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. In 2020, the Movement for Black Lives, along with other organizations, is urging everyone to participate in Juneteenth activities locally. [continue reading…]

Racial wealth gap learning simulation

May 31, 2021 0

Bread for the World provides a simulation as an interactive tool that helps people understand the connections among racial equity, hunger, poverty, and wealth. [continue reading…]

Meet the 23-year-old who launched her own game company to teach people about systems of oppression

May 19, 2021 0

23-year-old Toiell Washington launched her game company, The Master’s Tools, which focuses on addressing systems of oppression and telling the stories of marginalized people across a range of topics, social movements, and time periods. [continue reading…]

Black Theater Matters

May 3, 2021 0

Few audiences are familiar with the treasure trove of early Black theater, largely omitted from our national cultural legacy. Peace studies and peace education should challenge this omission as it does other injustices. [continue reading…]

Accountability, Justice, and Healing After Derek Chauvin’s Trial

April 24, 2021 0

Facing History and Ourselves developed this “Teaching Idea” to help guide an initial class discussion on the verdict in Derek Chauvin’s trial. [continue reading…]

Online learning exposes enduring educational inequalities, sparks efforts for reform

October 16, 2020 0

Throughout the summer, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has brought a lot to the forefront of the public eye about systemic inequity, from police brutality to health care. One enduring topic that has come and gone when discussing inequity is education, which is affected by historic practices of redlining across the nation. [continue reading…]

Peace Education, not Patriotic Education

September 22, 2020 1

Trump’s call for “patriotic education” is dangerous. Instead, our schools need peace education to help contend with this moment of reckoning with racial and other forms of inequality in a genuinely inclusive way. [continue reading…]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2020

August 20, 2020 0

Read the full transcript of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2020 speech “Tackling the Inequality Pandemic,” where he outlines a vision of a new social contract and a Global New Deal. [continue reading…]

What Can Peace Education Teach us about Police Reform?

July 22, 2020 1

Monisha Bajaj argues that the global field of peace education has rich insights to offer to the systemic restructuring of police forces and to the training of officers. “Peace” officers must be held to a higher standard and truly uphold and advance peace in the communities they serve. [continue reading…]

Transformative Pedagogy for Racial Justice

July 2, 2020 0

“Seeking to dismantle a power imbalance that legitimizes racist acts of violence, without addressing those classroom practices and the racial hierarchies in our curricula, perpetuates systemic racism. Only a transformative pedagogy, founded on racial justice, will allow us to realize our ideals of diversity and inclusivity.” – Tauheedah Baker [continue reading…]